We try to teach our children to be fair and kind from an early age. My preschool-age son talks about such lessons each day. My first-grade daughter recently brought home a kindness award for her willingness to help others without being asked.
April 2013
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Colby grad returned home to Boston neighborhood defiantly
Julia Bruss is 23 years old, a Harvard graduate student and because she is young and very smart, she figured out how to best retaliate against whoever bombed her neighborhood.
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Frank says tea party dislikes government
The former congressman from Massachusetts says gridlock is what Republicans want.
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Can state cut energy costs? The heat is on
The governor and Legislature will need to compromise to come up with sorely needed efficiencies.
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MLB: Royals sweep Red Sox
BOSTON (AP) — Lorenzo Cain walked with two outs and the bases loaded in the 10th inning to give Kansas City a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday and complete the Royals’ sweep of a day-night doubleheader.
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LePage sees no shame in going by the letter grade
Who’s “attaching shame”? Gov. Paul LePage, in his weekly radio address, foreshadowed the pending release of his proposed A-F grading system for Maine’s public schools and took a swipe at Democrats in the process. The Maine Department of Education has said it will roll out plans for the system, which LePage announced in his State […]
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Maine lawmaker seeks tighter pharmacy regulation
Rep. Sharon Anglin Treat says Maine should learn from the 2012 meningitis outbreak linked to Massachusetts.
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Washington’s partisan entrenchments getting deeper, says former US Rep. Frank
Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank told a Colby College audience Sunday that partisanship in American government is not the problem; extreme partisanship is the problem.
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NASCAR: Kenseth holds off Kahne in Kansas
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Matt Kenseth knew that he had a front-running car Sunday.
It was simply a matter of getting there.